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Stir Fry Beef in Chinese Wine
Posted by: nouvoqueen on: November 12, 2008
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Jac: *sings* “All by myself….”
This is a simple one-dish meal for the singletons dinner that’s quick and easy to prepare.
Recipe for Stir Fry Beef with Chinese Wine
Marinade for 1/2 hr to and hour:
Thin slices of beef strips
Thick Soy Sauce
Light Soy Sauce
Chinese Wine
Crushed garlic
Asparagus peeled and sliced- or substitute with any vegetable of your choice
Cornstarch dissolved [...]
Fried Prawns in Lemongrass Sauce
Posted by: nouvoqueen on: May 26, 2008
The ingredients ready and raring to go!
500g medium to large prawns (de-veined)
3 stalks of lemongrass (smashed to smithereens!)
Finely slice:
3 slices of ginger
3 stalks of lemongrass
3 pips of garlic
5 bird’s eye chili
Mix together:
5 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp tomato sauce
Steps:
Deep fry prawns until cooked, remove and set aside
Fry 3 [...]
From Moussaka with Love
Posted by: nouvoqueen on: March 22, 2008
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(Gosh it’s been so long! If you were waiting, our apologies to you. Bran – not as bad as if you were reading my blog or Jac’s though )
Jac: Bran loves moussaka (eyes glaze over at the mere mention, you get the picture?) and I’d volunteered to cook for Valentine’s this year [...]
Domestication. Day 3: Indian Cooking
Posted by: nouvoqueen on: January 29, 2008
The spread minus the banana leaf
Jac: A packet of minced mutton had been languishing in the freezer for a while and in the lazy waking pre-breakfast hours of Sunday morning I’d been concocting gleeful designs on it; minced mutton curry to be specific even though Bran had bought it with an Italian slant in [...]
Domestication. Day 2: Western Cooking
Posted by: exsomnis on: January 24, 2008
Bran: We were supposed to go for high tea at the Concorde’s lobby cafe in KL, courtesy of a voucher that I’d won at my company’s annual dinner (the first time I’d legitimately won not one but two prizes at a dinner’s lucky draw!). Alack, being on the very last vestiges of my 3 weeks [...]
Domestication. Day 1: Chinese Cooking
Posted by: nouvoqueen on: January 21, 2008
Menu: ABC Soup, Oyster Mushroom Omelette and Stir-fried kailan
Jac: Yes I know, the menu’s nothing remarkable except for the fact that this time I was cooking. Not too many people know this but bran is the master chef in this household (and I the glorified ‘assistant’ chef and designated dishwasher . But [...]
‘Tis the Season: Home-made Eggnog
Posted by: nouvoqueen on: December 16, 2007
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Jac: We’d been making references to eggnog here and there ever since the Christmas season began and so yesterday feeling down and out from a persistent bug that reared it’s ugly head again on a weekend no less, I told bran that I wanted eggnog. Eggnog, gingerbread cookies, roasted cured ham, turkey and a warm [...]
